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Adobe accused of using pirated books to train SlimLM The company claims it used SlimPajama-627B – an open source Cerebras dataset The plaintiff claims sufficient financial resources to “vigorously” pursue this case Adobe is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in the US with a class action alleging the company trained its AI models on pirated […]

BBC Radio 4 is the UK’s most popular talk station, home to marquee shows and podcasts such as Desert Island Discs and The Incredible Truth, Infinite Monkey Cage and In our time. Its high status is why, when BBC management inexplicably blocked international access to BBC Sounds, an exception was made for Radio 4. But

Proofpoint reports phishing surge abusing Microsoft OAuth 2.0 device code flow Victims enter codes on real Microsoft domains, giving attackers access tokens Proofpoint recommends blocking entity code streams Cybercriminals, including state-sponsored threat actors, are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 device code authentication flow to take over Microsoft 365 accounts. This is according to a new

Mozilla says Firefox will get an AI ‘kill switch’ in early 2026 The move is an attempt to appease users who are angry about their AI plans Mozilla’s new CEO revealed plans to turn Firefox into an ‘AI browser’ AI is taking over the world, but not everyone is happy about it. That was aptly

We now have Unicode approval for 163 new emojis They have appeared first in a new Android 16 beta Everyone should get these emojis by early 2026 You’ll soon have a wealth of new ways to express yourself pictorially, as 163 new emojis have now been approved by Unicode – the top emoji regulator –

Dali launches Sonik standmount, floorstanding, on-wall and cinema speakers They use treble and cone technology from Dali’s advanced models 7 models, from $900 / £449 / AU$849 Danish music maestro Dali is on a hot streak: it has just unveiled a new range of budget-friendly audiophile speakers, fresh off the launch of the super-affordable five-star

Mrs. Deshpande is a psychological thriller starring Madhuri Dixit as a serial killer who agrees to work with the police to track down a copycat on the loose. While much of the show’s hype stems from it being an Indian adaptation of the highly successful French thriller La Mantethat’s only part of the appeal. It

OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong will step down in the coming weeks Comms VP Lindsey Held Bolton will keep an eye on things while a replacement is found George Osborne recently joined OpenAI in a government liaison role OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong has announced that she will leave the company at the

Heated rivalry section 5 (“I’ll Believe in Anything”) deepens the emotional stakes between Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov as their secret connection blossoms. Hooked on Rachel Reid’s addictive rival-to-lover hockey drama? Here is where to watch Heated Rivalry episode 5 online and from anywhere with a VPN – regardless of whether you are in the

The average AI-generated pull request has 10.83 problems compared to 6.45 for human code, the report claims The quality could be better in terms of typos, leaving room for human reviewers Microsoft code fixes are up, but that’s probably the overall output AI-generated code is actually exposed to more vulnerabilities than human-generated code, raising questions